Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The overwhelming majority of the Greek people are being called on in this period by the "left" government to pay an unbearable property tax, which had been introduced by the previous government. This is a tax that has been kept in place and intensified by SYRIZA, despite its pre-election promises to abolish it. And it is precisely this period that the Prime Minister, A.Tsipras chose to spread new illusions amongst the people, by supporting with gusto in an interview with the newspaper "Real News" the fairytale of supposedly "just" development. He also seeks to utilize the upcoming meeting of the leaders of the EU's Mediterranean countries, which he is convening in Athens, in this direction.

He said, when explaining the goals of the attempted coordination of the states of the "South" on behalf of their bourgeoisies, that the aim was to push for the transfer of funds to the periphery in order to support the capitalist recovery and the way out from the economic crisis. And he noted: "We do not want to be the poor periphery of the EU, we want to be a new centre, with an agenda and positive proposals for development and social cohesion."

the
KKE denounces the harmful for the Venezuelan people provocative plans
of creating tension that reactionary opposition forces are promoting,
through the dangerous call for “peaceful” seizure of Caracas on
September 1st.
These moves coincide with the escalation of the interventions against
Venezuela, both from the Organisation of American States and the
United States and the EU, such as the extention by the President of
the USA of the unaccaptable decree which targets Venezuela as a
threat against the US national security.

The
question of the state is now acquiring particular importance both in
theory and in practical politics. The imperialist war has immensely
accelerated and intensified the process of transformation of monopoly
capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism. The monstrous oppression
of the working people by the state, which is merging more and more
with the all-powerful capitalist associations, is becoming
increasingly monstrous. The advanced countries - we mean their
hinterland - are becoming military convict prisons for the workers.

The
unprecedented horrors and miseries of the protracted war are making
the people's position unbearable and increasing their anger. The
world proletarian revolution is clearly maturing. The question of its
relation to the state is acquiring practical importance.

The
elements of opportunism that accumulated over the decades of
comparatively peaceful development have given rise to the trend of
social-chauvinism which dominated the official socialist parties
throughout the world. This trend - socialism in words and chauvinism
in deeds (Plekhanov, Potresov, Breshkovskaya, Rubanovich, and, in a
slightly veiled form, Tsereteli, Chernov and Co. in Russia;
Scheidemann. Legien, David and others in Germany; Renaudel, Guesde
and Vandervelde in France and Belgium; Hyndman and the Fabians[1] in
England, etc., etc.) - is conspicuous for the base, servile
adaptation of the "leaders of socialism" to the interests
not only of "their" national bourgeoisie, but of "their"
state, for the majority of the so-called Great Powers have long been
exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations.
And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of
this kind of booty. The struggle to free the working people from the
influence of the bourgeoisie in general, and of the imperialist
bourgeoisie in particular, is impossible without a struggle against
opportunist prejudices concerning the "state".

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Almost
27 years have passed since the counterrevolutionary events in Romania
and the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena. On
December 25, 1989, after a hasty, parody trial before a Kangaroo
court, the Ceausescu couple were executed in Targoviste, north of
Bucharest. According to the head of the firing squad, Nicolae
Ceaușescu sang "The
Internationale"
while being led up against the wall. The
execution of Ceausescu marked the end of the counter-revolutionary
overthrow of Socialism in Romania and the beginning of a “new
order” in the country.

Ceausescu
is an exemplary case of how western media manipulate the image of a
politician. When, for example, Romania did not participate in the
intervention of the Warsaw Pact armies in Czechoslovakia in 1968, the
West praised Ceausescu as a “good pal” within the eastern bloc.
When Romania accepted to participate in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad
(which was boycotted by the other Socialist countries), western media
again praised Nicolae Ceausescu for his “disobedience towards
Moscow”. However, this changed when the Romanian leader distanced
himself from Gorbachev's counter-revolutionary line of “compromise”
with Imperialism. Then, the directed western media propaganda started
to present Ceausescu as the “Dracula”, demonizing his leadership.
The “good guy” of the eastern bloc rapidly transformed into a
“brutal dictator” in the eyes of the so-called international
community.

Friday, August 26, 2016

In the following days of the 15th July coup attempt in Turkey, the Communist Party, Turkey released numerous statements and analysis regarding the situation in the country and the immediate agenda of the class struggle in Turkey. The following is a commentary by the First Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party, Turkey, Kemal Okuyan which composes KP's recent line of politics.

The
Gulenists had seized the state. This is what they say. But, the
picture shows that the Gulenists are in some extent the state itself.
‘Seizing’ does not, and cannot, correspond to reality. The truth
is totally the opposite.

I
shall not repeat how and why the Gulenist movement had increased its
influence, as we have talked and written a lot about this issue.

But
I shall reverse the above question and thus focus on the answer of
the following one: What and who is the state?

Marxists
have long debated on topics like, which mechanisms attribute class
character to the state; how the state serves the interests of the
ruling class; in this process to what extent the state is capable of
creating an autonomous area and how the apparatus of the state, in
the existing context, will fade with the annihilation of all classes.
There is a whole and very valuable sum of writings to comprehend and
analyse the complicated structure of the state.

On
the occasion of the 81st Thessaloniki International Trade
Fair, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) issued an announcement
calling the working class, small farmers, women and the youth to
massively participate in the rally against the policy of the
government, the Capital and the EU.

The demonstration is scheduled to
take place on the day of the Fair's inauguration, on Saturday
evening, September 10, at Thessaloniki's Aristotelous square.

“Government-Industrialists-EU
pave the ground for the next looting! No consensus to the
continuation of the slaughter of our rights! No compromise with
poverty and miserable life!” points out the announcement of PAME
and calls the people to give a militant response.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

The operation in Jarablus, Syria bogs down Turkey into the marsh of war. This totally illegitimate and incoherent operation should be stopped immediately.

Enough is enough!

Do not mess Syria up anymore!

The operation in Jarablus Syria bogs down Turkey into the marsh of war.This totally illegitimate and incoherent operation should be stopped immediately.

Turkey has once again, violated the sovereignty rights of Syria. Since from the beginning, the support of the outsiders, especially Turkey, to the armed gangs became the main cause for the Damascus administration loosing replacements to the international jihadist groups. Therefore, for anyone seeking peace in Syria it would be sufficient and necessary to stop intervening Syria's domestic affairs and to respect the country's sovereignty rights.

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The European Parliament Group of KKE denounces the anticommunist events organised by the EU and the EU Slovak Presidency. The events are taking place in the framework of the so-called "European Day of Remembrance for victims of the totalitarian regimes" which the EU has set to be observed on August 23rd. Participants in these events are representatives of the Ministries of Justices of the EU member-states, various "institutes" and NGOs which are financed by EU funds having as an ordered mission the slandering of Socialism and the rewriting of History.

A clear aim of this anticommunist gathering is the manipulation of the conciousness of the working people, first and foremost of the youth, using as weapons the counterfeiting of History, the slander against the unprecedented gains of the working people in Socialism. Through the unhistorical equalization of fascism and communism, they finally seek to acquit the fascist monster and the "womb" which gives birth and reproduces it; the capitalist system.

Monday, August 22, 2016

FARC guerrilla fighter
and delegate in the peace negotiations, Alexandra Nariño, speaks to
teleSUR about her 14 years with the rebel army / Source: telesurtv.net.

Alexandra
Nariño is not Colombian, yet the impending end of the South American
country’s 50-year
civil war between
the government and left-wing rebel forces represents “enormous
happiness” for her.

That’s
because the Dutch national has been fighting within Colombia’s FARC
guerilla army for 14 years. After living in the jungle in FARC camps
for about a decade, for the last four years Nariño
has played a key role in the peace process in
Havana, Cuba, that aims to transition Colombia out of the
longstanding internal conflict and toward a new era of peace.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Left: Nazi collaborator and war criminal StepanBandera; Right: Jamala at the 2016 ESC.

Her full name is Susana Jamaladinova, also known as 'Jamala'. She was the controversial winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. According to news reports, Jamala performed in a Neo-Nazi youth music festival called "Banderstadt" in Lutsk, Ukraine. The festival, which took place from 5th to 7th August honors the notorious Ukrainian fascist, war criminal and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

Jamala had triumphed in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with a much controversial, politically motivated and certainly anti-communist, song called "1944" which had as a main theme the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Stalin. Of course, the song was by itself a distortion of history: Crimea's Tatars were deported because they were Nazi collaborators.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Interview of Pavel Blanco, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Mexico (Partido Comunista Mexicano, PCM), to the International Communist Press / August 20, 2016.

ICP: In
the recent years, violence in Mexico, both related to drug
trafficking groups, or as a part of a clearly paramilitary activity
against the progressive forces, organizations and people and
especially the communists has been on the rise. Your Party, PCM has
also suffered attacks of these paramilitary forces. What are the
causes of this wave of violence and what will be the consequences of
this situation in the context of the class struggle? Can you also
comment on the relation of this situation with the U.S. imperialism
that never ceased to mark its presence in Mexico?

Pavel
Blanco:First
of all, I would like to send my brotherly greetings to the Communist
Party of Turkey, with whom we share the same line in the
revolutionary regrouping of the international communist movement. We
will do everything to reiterate our solidarity on the face of the
political events that violently convulse the class struggle there.

In
Mexico it is possible to literally observe the face of capitalism
that Marx was speaking of. It drips mud and blood from all its pores.
The wave of violence that shakes us with more than 200,000 dead in 10
years is not a system failure. Rather, it is the logical consequence
of capitalism that consists of barbarianism, terror, uncertainties,
hunger and death. The so-called war of narco-trafficking, in which
the Mexican state is directly involved, is a process of
re-accommodation of markets, routes and stakeholders in order to
control this business, which is laundered rapidly through financial
investments, and sectors such as the real estate and production.
Here we don’t only refer to the agricultural industry but also to
the branches such as metals, mechanics, iron and steel and
extractivism. So, it is a process of amplification of accumulation
and a new economic branch that rapidly generates consequences for
politics. The money buys the political parties, candidates, elected
state officers, mayors, MPs, senators and governors, all of which
strongly influence the presidency of the republic.

Twelve
years have passed since the glamorous and much celebrated XXVIII
Olympiad in Athens. For more than a decade hundreds of articles have
been written about the 2004 Olympics' cost- an immense total cost of
billion euros- as well as about the abandonded venues. However,
before going to these issues, we will refer to what we regard as the
most significant issue: the cost in human lives. A cost which cannot
be counted in euros or olympic medals. At least 13 workers were
killed ("work accidents") during the construction works of the Olympic venues.

IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES.

Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement. In France, the Communists ally with the Social-Democrats# against the conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the right to take up a critical position in regard to phases and illusions traditionally handed down from the great Revolution.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

A
new survey, conducted by Russian Public Opinion Research Center
(VCIOM), M-Vector, Ipsos, Expert Fikri and Qafqaz in 11
countries of the former Soviet Union, at the request
of Sputnik news agency and radio, shows
that the residents of 9 out of 11 surveyed former Soviet countries
aged over 35 believe that life in the USSR was better than it has
been since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW (sputniknews.com) -
Some 64% of respondents in Russia who lived in Soviet
times believe that the quality of life in the Soviet Union
was better. About 60% of respondents in Ukraine agreed
with this statement. The
surveyshowed
that the highest rates of agreement with this statement are
found among respondents in Armenia (71%) and Azerbaijan
(69%). Those respondents who do not remember living in the USSR,
those aged 18-24, believe that life has improved since the
collapse. Some 63% of young people in Russia think so.

This
is not a post about religion and faith. Historical materialism, as it
has been analyzed in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and others,
represents our perspective on the “opium of the people”. However,
this article focuses on the Greek Orthodox Church as an institution
and her high ranking representatives. Before going to our major
issue, let us remind the following: a) according to article 3.1 of
the Constitution of Greece (Hellenic Republic) “the prevailing
religion in Greece is that of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ”,
b) the Church of Greece is, in fact, an institution tied to the
bourgeois Greek state, as long as priests (of all ranks) are civil
servants and their salaries are paid from the State. c) the Church of
Greece, with an estate of billion euros, is largely benefited by a
series of tax exemptions.

The
reactionary and regressive role of the Church of Greece through
history is, more or less, known. Since the formation of the
independent Greek state in 1830, the Orthodox Church has been always
part of the establishment- from the Ottoman rule to the formation of
the Kingdom of Greece and from the 1940s Nazi occupation to the
1967-1974 military dictatorship, the leadership ofthe Greek Orthodox
Church played its role as a staunch ally of the established order.

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

It was in the dawn of August 14, 1954, in the area of Dafni in Athens, when the bourgeois Greek state murdered a courageous communist: He was Nikos Ploumbidis, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (KKE).

The following day, the newspapers were writing: "He was executed while cheering for KKE, facing with absolute composure the bullets of the firing squad"while "he denied to have his eyes tied over"during the execution. Just a few seconds before gunfire he shouted: "Viva Hellas! Viva KKE!". It was another murder by the reactionary, post-war bourgeois Greek government and its imperialist allies. Two years earlier, Nikos Beloyannis and his comrades had been executed.

Ploumbidis was born in 1902 in Langadia, Arcadia in Peloponnese. He was a teacher by profession. From a very young age he developed his activity within the working class movement, thus becoming a KKE member in 1926. In 1938 he became a member of the Central Committee and later member of the Political Bureau.

Monday, August 15, 2016

We are inspired and learn from the 100-year history of the KKE, from the 3-year epic of the DSE.

The CC of the KKE, the entire party and KNE, honours the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the democratic Army of Greece (DSE).

1946 was a year of important developments directly connected to the creation of the DSE, such as:

The 2nd Plenum of the CC of the KKE (12-15 February 1946), which began exactly a year after of the signing of the Varkiza Agreement (12th of February 1945).The 2nd Plenum, even if in a contradictory way, was the one that decided to conduct the armed struggle.

The attack of a group of partisans on the gendarmerie station of Litohoro, on the night of the 30th and early in the morning of the 31st of March 1946, took place on the eve of the parliamentary elections.

The foundation of the General Headquarters of the Partisans (28th of October 1946), which is in essence the date of the foundation of the DSE. The official name was finalized on the 27th of December 1946, with the issuing of the Order of the General Headquarters of the Partisans, which set "the name of the partisan forces as being the DEMOCRATIC ARMY OF GREECE".

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Alexander Zinoviev (1922-2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist, mathematician and writer. He is an extraordinary case of a dissident in the Soviet Union who later apologized for his anti-sovietism and anti-stalinism. In his youth, in 1939, he was arrested for allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate Joseph Stalin. As a head and professor of the Logic Department at Moscow State University, Zinoviev acquired a dissident reputation. In 1978 he left the Soviet Union - he lived in Western Europe until 1999.

Having the opportunity to live both the socialist system in the USSR and Western Europe's capitalism, Zinoviev made a u-turn in his thoughts after the counterrevolutionary events in the Soviet Union (1989-1991). He profoundly regreted for his previous anti-soviet stance and even asked from the Russian people to forgive him for that.

Friday, August 12, 2016

First of all, let us say that the proper phrase is "under Socialism". During the 20th century, the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe were in the process of socialist construction. According to the Marxist-Leninist theory, "Socialism" consist the first stage (phase) of Communism.

Having said the above, let's go to the core issue. The people who have lived both under Socialism and Capitalism give their answer to the various bourgeois and petty bourgeois unhistorical slanders. Various polls in former Socialist countries prove that the majority of people, in Russia and Eastern Europe, think that life was better before the counter-revolutions and the restoration of Capitalism. Under Socialism their major problems had been solved: Free education, free healthcare for all, social security, jobs, free vacation and holidays for everyone, etc. The restoration of Capitalism brought an unprecedented barbarity in almost every sector of public life: Social inequalities, unemployment, privatization of major public sectors from healthcare to education, etc.

Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French Revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political struggle was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible. But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible.*

Source: Excerpt
from the book “The Olympic
Deceit of the ‘Divine Baron’ – Pierre de Coubertin”.

Posters: Vanja Zakanji.

As early as 1929, at the
time of the great recession, “father” of the modern Olympic Games
Pierre de Coubertin expressed his inclination towards authoritarian
regimes, namely his discontent with the inefficiency of the
capitalist system in its dealing with the working class :

"First of all,
it was necessary to establish the International Olympic Committee
with its
basic rights, that should
have been acknowledged by all the nations. This was not easy, because
the Constitution of the Committee was opposed to the ideas of the
time. It discarded the principle of delegation, so dear to our
parliamentary democracies - the principle which, having done some
great good, seems to be less
efficient every day". (1)

It should also be
noted that Coubertin was cordially accepted and his works published
in fascist Germany, in spite of being "a great French patriot",
a fact important at the time of German revanchism. Theodor Lewald,
the president of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympics,
wrote of Coubertin at the end of his Introduction to "Olympische
Erinnerungen", published
in Berlin in 1938:

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Regarding Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' message about Greece's debt, the Press Office of the CC of KKE issued the following statement:

"In his unhistorical references, Mr.Tsipras "forgets" to say that the regulation of the debt and the post-war reconstruction of Germany wasn't aimed at it's people prosperity, but, on one hand, it was aimed at the deterrence of the increasing influence of the Soviet Union and the Socialist system- a plan which, among other things, included the utilisation of numerous former members of the Nazi regime- and, on the other hand, to the capitalist recovery of Germany.

Today, the regulation of the Greek debt, which has been agreed by the SYRIZA-ANEL government, will be accompanied by new memorandums of austerity and anti-people measures, for the benefit of the recovery of capitalist profits, while the debt will be paid by those who didn't create it, the people".

In
our post titled “Golden Dawn's Neo-Nazis's admiration for Donald Trump”(April 6) we had described the public admiration that known
members of the Greek fascist organisation had expressed for the US
Presidential candidate Donald Trump. There is plenty of evidence
which shows a connection between far-right, fascist and racist groups
in the two sides of the Atlantic; more specifically between American
White supremacists and Greek neo-Nazis.

Before
going to the ties of Golden Dawn's Nazis with US fascist groups, lets
go back to June 2015 when 59 year-old John
Russel Houser opened fire at a movie theater in Lafayette,
Louisiana. Two women, aged 21 and 33, were killed as a result of
this. According to police investigation, Houser had a history of
far-right ideas, being a member of the ultra-conservative Tea Party
and an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Timothy
McVeigh. A research on the web unveiled that, in one of his
comments, Houser had praised Golden Dawn. Here
is the part of his reference to the Greek nazi-criminal group:

Monday, August 8, 2016

The
Central Committee of Communist Party, Turkey (KP) released a
declaration for the peoples of the world in the aftermath of the July
15 coup attempt in Turkey:

"We
witnessed an attempted coup in Turkey on the night of July 15.
Despite its oddnesses, obscurities and uncertainties about the actors
behind it, this was a genuine coup attempt.

That
Fethullah Gülen was behind the coup and that Fethullah Gülen has
deep ties with the U.S. administration are facts. Additionally, there
were more than a few traces of Pentagon and CIA behind the coup
attempt.

The
failure of this attempted coup is to the benefit of our people. If
the coup had succeeded, the working people already burdened with all
the imaginable problems laid on them by the capitalist system would
have had to face heavier and more destructive conditions. One needs
to keep in mind that the coup plotters have a pro-NATO and Islamist
orientation and they have been serving the international monopolies
for decades.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

"Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us [...] We must constitute ourselves trustees of this new force--to prevent its misuse, and to turn it into the channels of service to mankind.We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes".

The above words are the words of an imperialist war criminal. It was August 9, 1945 when U.S. President Harry Truman was delivering a radio address to the American people. Three days ago, the bomber Enola Gay had dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb in Hiroshima and another bomb was spreading death and destruction in Nagasaki. Truman actually lied to the American people.The reason behind the use of the atomic bomb wasn't to end WW2 or save lives. It was a warning against the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of the "Cold War".

Friday, August 5, 2016

With mass gatherings and rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki, the Greek Committee for International Peace and Detente (EEDYE) honors the victims of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki nuclear crime.

In the afternoon of August 9th, a political event have been scheduled in the shadow of the Athens Acropolis, marking the 71th anniversary of the imperialist crime in Japan. The major slogan of the event is "To condemn the US crime in Hiroshima-Nagasaki" and "Condemn the Imperialist Wars and Intervention". A similar event will take place in Thessaloniki's city center.

On the occasion of the 71 years since the dropping of the atomic bombs in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6-8 August 1945), the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued the following statement:

Thursday, August 4, 2016

These days, the beautiful city of Rio De Janeiro is divided by a wall- on one side are the new, luxurious Olympic venues which are ready to host athletes from all over the world; on the other side, there is a complex of multiple favelas where poverty, misery and gangs dominate. This divided face of Rio mirrors the immense class-based inequalities in Brazil; a capitalist country of over 200 million people which is the world's ninth largest economy by nominal GDP.

More than 20% of Brazil's population lives below poverty line and less than 2 million brazilians (1% of the total population) owns 13% of the total household income. According to Forbes, the 15 richest families in Brazil are worth an estimated $122 billion- that means approximately 5% of the country's GDP. This is the social and economic framework of the country which hosts the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

The coup attempt and the continuing dispute in its aftermath was not only the concern of Turkey but of the workers’ and communist parties all over the world. Definitely, the course of the events should be considered regarding the class struggle in Turkey but at the same time that very coup attempt also referred to the class struggle around the world, indicating the relentless rivalry and weaknesses within the imperialist order.

In order to share with the international communist movement, the International Relations Bureau of the Communist Party,Turkey has prepared an analysis which consists of 10 critical questions on recent coup attempt and its aftermath in Turkey.

International Bulletin of Communist Party, Turkey No7.

Critical questions on recent coup attempt and its aftermath in Turkey:

It
was August 3, 2008 when the “Patriarch” of anti-communism,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, died. The writings of Solzhenitsyn became a
major cource of anti-Soviet hysteria and extaordinary slanders
against the first socialist state. Even today, Solzhenitsyn's major
work “The Gulag Archipelago” is, more or less, regarded as the
anti-communist “bible” of the world's apologists of capitalism
and anti-soviet propaganda.

The supposed “honest” testimonies of
Solzhenitsyn- which he was never able to prove- were used in the
building of an anti-stalinist, anti-communist obsession which the
West had so much need to base upon, especially after the end of WW2.

However,
who was really this nobel prize-winning Russian and how much
credibility do his anti-soviet fairy tales contain?

A
century has passed since the historic theoretical confrontation
between Lenin and Kautsky in relation to the definition that determines the socio-economic
content of imperialism, as well as over the theory of
“Ultra-imperialism”. It is well-known that Lenin waged fierce
polemics against Kautsky’s position on imperialism, which
identified it as a policy preferred by the advanced industrial
countries in order to dominate weaker agricultural countries. He also
more generally criticized the detachment of imperialist politics from
its economic base, the dominance of monopoly capitalism. It is also
well-known that Lenin criticized the opportunist position which
argued that the development of the capitalist economy internationally
leads to ultra-imperialism, to a great interdependence of the
interests of the bourgeois classes of the various countries.

The 2016
elections reflect the deepening crisis of the capitalist economic
system in general and the US political party system in particular.

The
Democratic primary contests are over. Sanders has endorsed Clinton.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders are being prodded to accept meekly the
corporate Democrat Hillary Clinton as the Lesser Evil.

Some suggest
that this foreshadows, by some alchemy, a “resounding progressive
mandate,” someday.

For example,
The Nation magazine, a liberal bastion that supported Sanders,
unfurls the white flag of surrender (June 22-27):

“A
Democratic Party that incorporates and embraces the ideals of the
Sanders campaign and the people who supported it will be better
positioned to defeat Donald Trump in November – and to govern the
country with resounding progressive mandate in the years to come.”